The school board’s Planning & Development Committee held four intensive work sessions over the course of six months in coming up with a list of...
Capitalizing on Spear Carriers to Preserve Your CEO Line of Credit
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Time to Update and Fine-Tune Your Superintendent Leadership Resolutions
There’s wide agreement in the K-12 sector that one of the preeminent vehicles for building and maintaining a close, productive, and enduring...
How Ironic!
Over the years, I’ve been privileged to present a number of governance keynotes and workshops at AASA, NSBA, and state K-12 association meetings. As...
Engaging Board Members Creatively in Shaping the Annual Budget
The October 6 post at this blog made the case that superintendents – wearing the “Chief Governing Process Designer” hat – are well-advised to work...
Board-Savvy Superintendents Know That Owners Make For Reliable Partners
A light bulb went off while I was sitting in on a board-superintendent-executive team work session early in my consulting career. The...
Taking the Helm as CEO of Your District
We spent a lot of our time together last Saturday at the workshop I presented for AASA’s Aspiring Superintendents Academy (“Hit the Ground Running...
Don’t Over-rely on Human Relations in Building Your Partnership With the Board
The superintendent was a consummate people-person who had from the get-go paid close attention to the human dimension of her working relationship...
Making Superintendent Evaluation a Powerful Relationship Building Tool
Truly board-savvy superintendents make sure that their board evaluates their performance at least annually, employing a well-designed process that...
Demonstrating Your Board Savvy-ness in Board Interview Sessions
One of the K-12 governance trends we discussed during the session I presented at MASA’s Aspiring Superintendents’ Academy on May 20 was the rapidly...
Gary Amoroso and Mia Urick on MASA’s Aspiring Superintendents’ Academy
A quarter-century of work with public and nonprofit CEOs and their boards has taught me that the preeminent factor...